By Rose Oranye :
Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor has expressed Governor Soludo’s commitment to giving sports its primacy of place in the state.
Receiving members of the Sports Writers Association (SWAN), Anambra State Chapter, who paid him a courtesy visit yesterday, September 24, 2022, at his office in Awka, Dr Mefor noted that with the return of school sports, the governor is already making way for sports excellence in the future.
According to him, the performance of Team Anambra in the just concluded National Youth Games, where Anambra bagged nine gold, 9 silver and eight bronze is a testament of the Governor’s good works in sports development.
“I noticed that Anambra State is returning in field tracks. The school games is already yielding results. There’s need to catch them young to be doing well in sports and that’s what Governor Soludo is doing in Anambra State. He is making way for sports excellence in the next five years and more.
“More facilities will be put in place. We need to encourage more people to board the tracks. Apart from being a veritable source of employment, sports keeps the youths occupied as an idle mind is a devil’s workshop.
“Watch out what cultism and drug abuse are doing to the society. We need to create alternative positive actions that can be rewarding and engage the youths,” he said.
The commissioner, who expressed the ministry’s readiness to partner with SWAN, urged the members to make formal requests regarding the installation of the Governor as their Grand Patron as obtainable in other states, among other issues.
Earlier, the SWAN Chairman, Anambra State, Chimezie Anaso expressed the association’s commitment to promoting Governor Soludu’s administration through positive reportage of his moderate strides in the sports sector.
*Oranye is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State